Justice Party planning will resume after the holidays
I thought I’d already posted this, but I guess not. It’s probably buried in a comment thread somewhere. Anyway: we shall pick back up with the Justice Party (or whatever we’re gonna call it) planning after the holidays. It’s impossible to do any organizing right now, and besides, I’m up to my arms in Christmas stuff for my folks. There’s a lot of interest out there in what we’ve discussed, and a bunch of threads to be pulled together from diverse quarters. It’ll be a fun thing to look forward to after the holidays. Better than going on a diet or committing suicide or whatever the popular after-Christmas activities are.
In the meantime, please feel free to keep posting ideas, suggestions, or questions. Or notifications of interesting events — like, say, brewing revolts on ostensibly Obama-faithful blogs. Love those.
13 Responses to “Justice Party planning will resume after the holidays”
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Nessum says:
You might not exactly learn anything from the Icelandic women’s party, Kvennalistinn, but you might get moral inspiration from knowing how, by merging with the Socialdemocratic party to which she belonged, they were instrumental in electing Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir as Iceland’s first female PM almost a year ago.
But then Island also elected a female president, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, way back in 1980!
Also it might be worth looking into the story of Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition (NIWC)?
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cwaltz says:
Thanks Violet
With all the bad news on the health care front, I’m looking forward to hearing the ideas kicked around.
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Aspen says:
Anyone here not celebrating Christmas for secular reasons? If so, what are you doing Dec. 24/25?
Oh, and Violet, how dare you have a real life?!?
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Violet Socks says:
Yeah, I know. Terrible of me.
Aspen, do you celebrate winter solstice? Or anything else? My dream some day is to get enough time and money to enjoy every holiday from Advent Sunday through Twelfth Night. Every single one! Including St. Lucia day and Hanukkah first night, which I’ve already missed. Drat.
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Aspen says:
I hope you’re able to do that someday. I don’t celebrate winter solstice, but I’m open to it. This year i’ll be working Christmas and traveling away from my family. And anyway, we already had a ban on gifts, due to our anti-commercialization/environmental/etc leanings + now the whole economy in the crapper to top it off. We don’t have a tree, but we do the full on lights thing. Non-Christmas-colored lights all the way. Keep ‘em from about Oct. to June. But we do rotate between different lights to keep it interesting.
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Violet Socks says:
In the original thread, songster says:
How about the Fair Deal Party? Yeah, it’s identified with Truman, but it’s not a strong identification, and not such a bad thing anyway.
At least it avoids associations with the FBI!
I like the Fair Deal Party. I keep thinking of that one. What gives me pause is the Truman connection. But maybe that’s not well known enough to be an obstacle?
Other suggestions that have been made are the Fair Play Party and the Integrity Party. Also the New Justice Party.
I kind of like the idea of a pledge — having Justice Democrats or other sympathizers “take the pledge.” A pledge for Justice for All. We could be pledgers.
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Violet Socks says:
Lambert just found a cool cartoon by Thomas Nast showing Lady Justice kicking ass: http://www.correntewire.com/twas_him
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jumpjet says:
Maybe it’s because I’ve been on a small folk music kick recently, but I can’t help but think that the part of the country any new populist/liberal party should try to start in is the part of the country that so many current ‘liberals’ completely write off: Appalachia.
West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The part of the country that Obama utterly ignored, that Clinton won well in, and when she did, the part of the country that Obama’s supporters denigrated as ‘racist,’ ‘redneck,’ ‘uneducated.’ Those folks assume that Appalachia’s hopelessly Republican, but it has been a Democratic bastion in the past. How else to explain the continued reelection of Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd in West Virginia?
I think an economic liberal populist party could do really well in Appalachia, and I’d love to try to make it happen.
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FembotsForObama says:
jumpjet — about your Appalachia idea, which is a good one, because those people have taken it up the you-know-what for a very long time (think TVA), but then to be subjected to all those insults by the lightbringer and Obotia was just too much.
Incidentally, they have some of the best music ever — Bluegrass! What a change from the hip hop/99 problems and a Bitch ain’t one shit we were subjected to.
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A fair deal for every American | Reclusive Leftist says:
[...] know I said planning was on hold til after Christmas, and it is; but I gotta get this off my chest. The Justice Party (or whatever we’re gonna [...]
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sisterkenney says:
I’m so thrilled to see all the energy and thought here (I was sent here from a blog in Corrente), and just wanted to say it’s amazing to see how many people are reaching the same conclusion from so many diffeent vantage points and situations. I was thinking of a new party myself awhile back, and recently posted this on a thread on FDL:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/16802#Respond
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lambert strether says:
When is National Party De-Registration Month? I don’t think I got the memo. February, maybe?
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lambert strether says:
Pensees d’escalier: National Legacy Party De-Registration Month…
National “Burn Your Party Registration” Month.
